Time to buy me Mum a new pC

Ok, here's the deal.

In the past I've built PCs for my mum but now I just don't have the time to do the tech support for her every time she buggers it up.... so I'm looking at getting her to buy a Dell or similar, so she can call them when the latest bit of kit she's bought from QVC has sodded her machine up.

Now, she in now way needs an uber-rig, not for the stuff she does, but I've had a chat with her and she mainly uses a PC for email and word processing. However, she'd now got herself a DV cam and she's wanting to edit movies too.

I would stick to a Core 2 Duo setup which should leave some legroom for future upgrades and also that little extra if she comes to pushing the PC a little further. But if mostly for WP use then your spec seems to be fine, 2GB memory and your laughing really.

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Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

And with regards to Vista I would personally stick with XP, the amount of issues we've had installing and configuring Vista on machines recently (work in a PC shop) has been a nightmare. So many compatibility problems and the like. I mean sure it looks nice, but Id just stick with XP, you can always buy an upgrade to Vista if you wanted to in the future.

But for now I'm sticking with XP till all the bugs are ironed out and will probably migrate to Vista next year sometime.